Quotes from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

I understand Sean Penn. He has every right to look for El Chapo.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it's the thing that I needed to do.

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.

I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.

I have always been very wary of what would happen when I die. I feel I would die every day, and that thought sometimes made me more aware that I am alive.

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

Look, I'm no purist - there are good superhero films, and there are bad ones.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.

I have never met a superhero, but why are we so obsessed with superheroes?

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.